Posting...

Well, if you have not noticed, it is hard to post to your blog when you are working 40+ hours a week at one job and 3 to 4 service calls at the other. I am not complaining about it. Actually, I am rather happy that I am able to get this much work. I need to be able to pay for the next 2 semesters in cash along with the licing expences WITHOUT have to borrow money or work. I might have to work, but it would be nice if I was able to keep from having to do that. Anyway, I have not had much time to do anything with my idea that I posted last time. The flu has been going around at work and I have missed several days off ( more over time :D ) due to it. This last week my motherboard died. The IDE controller messed up. For an example, turn the power on once and the hard drive will not detect, reboot it and then either the same ide device or a cdrom drive will die. I think it is a bug of some sort, but I could be wrong. The drive that started messing up first was the windows drive, but I took the hd out and to another computer and it worked just fine, hence the diagnosis. Anyway, I am now an Alltel user. My dad wanted a new phone and the only way that he could get the one that he wanted was to add another line to the family plan. So, being the good son that I am and the fact that my contract was up with Verizon, I switched to Alltel so that he could get the new phone he wanted. The only grip is that he did not give me much notice to doing it. He did it on the 20th and then told me on the 21st that I needed to go down and move my number to Alltel in the 2 or 4 days. Dads are great. Anyway, I like the phone I ended up with. I have the v710. I had the choice of that or some Nokia peice of junk that had software problems. I like the phone so far because I can do just about anything with it. I have a usb cable that allows me to transfer anything from music to games to the phone. Do you know the weird ring tones that people have? Well, I can make my own. Right now, I have the opening song to an anime series called Hellsing as my ringer. I had to buy the OST to do it, but I did it. Motorola has a real nice program for making all this happen and it also made it easy to move my contacts, but be warned, the software is very Window$ dependant. As a mater of fact, Motorola has used M$ window$ CE on all of the hand sets that I have owned from them. Kind of scary if you ask me. Anyway, I am going to make a Walmart run. Later.

Interesting Idea

Well, I was looking through the new cell phones on the market and what all they did. Most of them run Windows CE. There are a few of them that run Linux, but most of them are not in use in the US unfortunatly. I kept seeing VoIP advertisements all over teh place while in my search. Then this real neat idea popped into my head. What about making a small laptop or small PDA into a VoIP telephone device? I know that several of them already have web services and I know that you can get a pcmia card for your laptop, so why not? I am sure that someone has already thought about the idea, but I have not really seen my idea. I got to looking at the pricing for the PCMIA wireless device for my laptop to see if I could do it that way, and if I could find a way to add a regualar wireless card for hot spots and a wirless card for cell tower use, then I would have it made. The wireless card for the cell towers costs about 40 a month for a limited amount of mb or about 60 a month for unlimited access. If you went with unlimited access, then you would want this "phone" to have web capabilities so that you could get on the internet and do everything that you normally do with the net, but be anywhere. On the other hand, if you had the limited mb use, you would want your "phone" to have a regular wireless card so that you would not have to use all of you mb talking on the "phone". You could take it to a local wirless hotspot and use someone elses bandwidth :) Anyway, I thought I would share the idean and maybe a smart LETU student could find an easy CHEAP way to make it happen. Later.

What has been happening.

Well I have been working. Alot. I have been working 41+ hours a week. Don't get me wrong, it is nice to see that paycheck every week. I am currently about 1/8th of the way of saving up for next semester's tuition. Anyway, I have been thinking of all sorts of ways to make money without doing work. If I wanted to get fat and lazy, there is a trucking company that will hire me for about 1100 a week after I get a cdl license. That would be okay, but I really need to know more before jumping head first into such a thing. Anyway, I have also been trying to set up a printer on the network here at the house. It is being a pain in the rear. Basically, I can not get the administrative rights to the thing without becoming OkiData certified. The story behind it is that dad bought an expensive color laser printer for the office and wants to use its features as a network printer and not have to have a computer to serve the printer to the rest of the network. Well, the printer has a login similar to that of a home wireless router. You can log into it the same way. There are some interesting features that are visable WITHOUT the administrative login, but without the login, you can not easily change printer network settings. The OKIDATA website is of no help what ever. The pages load very slowly, and you can not download anything but the manuals from that page making it very useless. Why can't this printer be like the printer that my dad had priviously? It even worked easily with linux. Oh well. I will have to play with it more after a few hours of sleep. Later.